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Show Senator C. R. Hunter Addresses City's Civic Groups Iron County's state senator, Charles R. Hunter, was guest speaker at the dinner meetings of three civic clubs this week including in-cluding the Lions, Kiwanis and Rotary, in that order. Senator Hunter, the first sole Iron County Senator since the re-alignment of the state senate, discussed the recently completed session for the civic organizations. organiza-tions. The discussion Included a brief summary of necessary action for bills and the processing of bills. In addition the senator talked about bills that appeared in the senate and house and some legislation leg-islation that was passed. He pointed out that If business continues to Increase at the same rate that it has over the past two years, the state will emerge with an approximate five million dollar surplus. However, "if business bus-iness stands still or there Is a recession during the next two years, the state will be In serious trouble," Hunter said. Pointing to legislation for education edu-cation the senator indicated that nearly every phase had received additional money for this year. Particularly favored by the legislators legis-lators were the institutions 'A higher learning. The element- y schools, he stated, although ge'. ting a raise In appropriations, were not up to requests from tne schools. The discussions were Informal, extremely educational, members of the clubs reported. |